Makers Market at Santana Row (2023-06-10)

Got coffees at Blue Bottle at Santana Row in San Jose.

Wandered through the outdoor Makers Market and noted these vendors:

• Malisa Suchanya (Oakland, California)
• Kindred Caramels (purchased Espresso caramels; multiple locations though our bag indicates based out of Campbell, California)
• CutiePop! (Met Sam Imholte and purchased bubble with slip of original artwork--got the llama in party mode with sunglasses 🙂)
• Crochet From J (Met Justine; purchased a crotched, heart-shaped succulent)
• Krafttee (Sunnyvale, California)

Japantown San Jose Walk 2023-04-15

Walked through and around Japantown San Jose. 

Dropped off carload of electronic waste at the San Jose Buddhist Church Education Building parking lot. Drove up, opened car doors and Boy Scouts from Troop 611 San Jose Betsuin unloaded the boxes and carried them to the nearby A&J Electronics Recycling E-Waste collection area, where staff palletized, wrapped, and loaded it onto a panel truck.

Japantown San Jose:

• Roy's Station Coffee & Teas: Iced latte and hot drip coffee, fruit galette, mushroom empanada, and two spam musubi
• Kogura Company: Two boxes of Girl Scout cookies (1 x Thin Mints, 1 x Adventurefuls)
• Moment Japantown: Bought Super Fluffy Red Panda Large plush
• Zonkey Toys: Looked around for the first time; great selection of plants and curated toys
• Nikkei Traditions: Looked around and admired the spam musubi time savers, movies, etc.
• Classic Loot: Looked around only

Ended our adventure over at Strawberry Park Shopping Center: 

• Clover Bakery & Cafe: Deep-fried yakisoba pan, deep-fried piroshki with ground beef, and two onigiri (1 x bonito flakes, 1 x kimchi)
• Mochi-ya Ren: Matcha Soft Serve cup, Strawberry Panna Cotta
• Mitsuwa Marketplace grocery store: Walked around

Yoshi's Chair

 

The 2020 CZU Lightning Complex fire displaced us from Santa Cruz temporarily. For a few weeks, we stayed at the San Jose Marriott with two cats.

Our orange cat Yoshi seemed to enjoy sunbathing on a particular orange chair (see photo).

We recently identified the chair as an Allermuir product:

Open - Open is an elegant and relatively compact contemporary range of soft seating, comprising of a lounge chair with or without a headrest, footstool and a large two seat sofa. The Molded seat shells and cushions with bull nosed edge profile and tailored upholstery, provide great comfort, precise shape and visual slenderness.

#A642 

Lounge chair on a wire frame 

• Standard Features 
• Molded foam construction 
• Fully upholstered 
• Wire frame finished in Polished Chrome 
• Plastic glides 
• Optional Features 
• Wire frame available in a selection of powder coat finishes 
• Decorative railroad stitch detail to perimeter seam 
• Two-tone upholstery 
• Open Performance Standards 
• Indoor Air Quality Certified to SCS-EC10.3-2014 v4.0

Not sure what specific color or fabric--fading from exposure to the sun also possible.

Retail cost ("Lounge Chair Wireframe"):

$2,677.00  💰

https://www.allermuir.com/us/products/soft-seating/open-us

It appears the San Jose Marriott selected the Allermuir chairs as part of a 2015 remodel, in partnership with Looney & Associates.